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A few months ago, scientists found a new garbage patch in the Arctic ocean. And now, another pocket of plastics, human trash, and chemical waste has been discovered in a newly-explored region of the Pacific Ocean. Like it’s...

These images aren't from a horror show in which alien creatures paralyze highways and melt cars wherever they fall - they're from Depoe Bay, Oregon. A truck hauling "slime eels" (also known as hagfish for their ghoulish appearance)...

The images seem as though they were lifted from some horror show in which alien creatures paralyze highways and melt cars wherever they fall. In a stranger-than-fiction twist, something quite similar actually occurred in...

In an age of rising sea levels and shore erosion, the sudden appearance of new coastal land can encourage and inspire. Along North Carolina's Cape Hatteras National Seashore, a brand new island has emerged from the sea like...

Environmentalists say President Donald Trump's administration has declared war on California marine animals after an announcement this week from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...

The world's oceans are in trouble, and nine of the biggest fishing firms recently decided to help. They're banding together in a voluntary initiative to protect oceans from problems like overfishing, which is rapidly depleting...

Even if you’re not a weather buff, you’ve probably caught wind that the strongest El Niño event in twenty years is coming right for us. Its impacts will be both positive and negative, largely depending on your geographic...

A new investigation has uncovered the inhumane and often gruesome reality lurking behind Thailand’s fishing industry. For the past decade, hundreds of Rohingya migrants have been sold from trafficking camps in Malaysia...

The big issue: Each day this week we are looking at key election issues. The environment has been neglected since Cameron’s ‘vote blue, go green’ slogan – but energy problems will be back in the spotlight in the next...

Thanks to British Petroleum (BP) decimating the oceanic habitats in the Gulf of Mexico with the infamous Deepwater Horizon spill, their Gulf Tourism and Seafood Promotional Fund is now being forced to fork over $1.3 million...

President orders indefinite extension of short-term protection for area, which he says is one of the US’s great natural resourcesBarack Obama has announced he is removing more than 52,000 sq miles (135,000 sq km) of waters...